Times Ain't Like They Used To Be
Early Rural & Popular Music
From Rare Original Film Masters 1928-35
Yazoo 512; Video & DVD; Ordering Information"A dream come true ... a selection of the
best, most
amazing old musical film clips known to exist.
A++." - Entertainment Weekly
"A fascinating and unprecedented collection ...
it pays tribute to the extraordinary diversity
of this country's rich musical history." -
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If
you've ever been captivated by the striking faces of Depression
era photos of rural America, that experience will be considerably
magnified here when those same images come alive playing vintage
American music. In the early days of sound film, in addition to
covering major events, newsreel cameras captured the sights and
sounds of everyday life in America, including its music. Musicians
were filmed where they lived and played, captured by roving newsreel
crews on street corners and front porches, at country dances and
summer resorts in nightclubs, and broadcasting from churches and
radio stations. Up till now most of the images and music in this
video have remained as raw unused footage, untouched and unseen
since the stories were first shot 60 years ago. Painstakingly
reconstructed for this release, all the joy and innocence of this
music of another era is communicated with undiluted immediacy.
If music is the truest expression of the human spirit, these images
are the purest window we have of everyday America in the 1920s
and 1930s.

70 minutes of magical historical film from
1928 to 1935 that brings to life an earlier epoch of American
culture and music.

The only surviving film of JIMMIE RODGERS,
the father of country music - 3 songs from the only original
35-mm print.